Poetry

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Transversing

Transversing

 Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. … 120 View
Treaty#

Treaty#

 A treaty is a contract. A treaty is enduring. A treaty is an act of faith. A treaty at its best is justice. It is a document and an undertaking. It is connected to place, people and self. It is … 112 View
True Concessions

True Concessions

 Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book Award These poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living … 76 View
Tsi Niió:re Tenkarakhwaráhseke’

Tsi Niió:re Tenkarakhwaráhseke’

Mohawk Edition

 As Long as the Sun Shines creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Inspired by her recent global travels, experiences, … 126 View
Twoism

Twoism

 Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body’s limits and its trickery, you are … 72 View
Vancouver For Beginners

Vancouver For Beginners

 In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood … 106 View
Vixen
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Vixen

 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. … 81 View
Vox Humana
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Vox Humana

Poems

 Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over … 110 View
War / Torn

War / Torn

 Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir’s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of … 115 View
We All Need to Eat

We All Need to Eat

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 We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, … 186 View
Weathervane

Weathervane

 As unpredictable as the seasons that guide it, Weathervane is part eco-tourism, part domestic nocturne, and part tempest. In a shifting world, Mark Sampson resounds like a modern Zeus, advising … 80 View
Wet Dream
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Wet Dream

 Wet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these poems metabolize toxic … 130 View
What We Carry

What We Carry

 What We Carry is a profound exploration of the weight of human history at three levels: the individual, the cultural, and environmental. From her brilliant “Extinction … 92 View
Why I Was Late
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Why I Was Late

 With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch’s debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Why I … 104 View
Write Across Canada

Write Across Canada

An Anthology of Emerging Writers

 The stories and poems gathered in Write Across Canada showcase a mere sampling of emerging writers working in Canada today. Selected by their mentors working in creative writing programs from … ; 112 View
You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations
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You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations

 Conceived as an archive of wisdom written by a disabled man for his children, You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations gives voice to the experience of living in an ableist society: … 80 View